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‘Always On’ and Defence Industry in the UK: Its Nature, Importance, Challenges and Ways Forward

Trevor Taylor
28 May 2026clockLong Read
Strategic Command Defence Digital, Skynet 6, stand at Space-Comm Expo in ExCeL London, UK.

New Workforce: Strategic Command Defence Digital, Skynet 6, stand at Space-Comm Expo in ExCeL London, UK. Image: Avpics / Alamy Stock

The significant implications of the Government ambition for the UK’s defence industry to be ‘always on’.

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Trevor Taylor

Professorial Research Fellow

Military Sciences

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Footnotes

1.:

Stuart Crainer, Key Management Ideas, London, Financial Times 1998, pp.90-93; Gary Hamel & C.K>Prahalad, Competing for the Future, Harvard Business School Press, Boston Mass, 1994.

2.:

Laura Pitel, ‘Rheinmetall offers €12 billion for Germany’s troubled warship project’, Financial Times, 6 May 2026.

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